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Education law is a rapidly growing practice that requires special skills.  Chris Adams specializes in K-12 school finance and charter school law.  A former elementary school teacher with Teach for America, Chris understands the context surrounding education issues at the local, state, and federal level.  His education law experience includes:

• Helping a charter school to obtain over $300,000 per year in funding required under Georgia law
• Working with school districts in litigation addressing the constitutionality of state funding 
• Negotiating agreements between charter schools, education management organizations ("EMOs"), and other partners
• Advising charter school applicants with petitions to districts and other authorizers, grant applications, and bylaws

Chris is a member of the Walton Family Foundation Grant Review Committee and Young Professionals for Education Equity.  He is also pursuing an education policy fellowship through the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education.  Chris has published two legal articles that address education issues at the state and national levels:

• Is Economic Integration the Fourth Wave in School Finance Litigation? 56 Emory L.J. 1613 (2007)
• Compliance Issues Raised by the United States’ Ratification and Implementation of Education Articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, J. of Child Welfare, Vol. 89(5) (2010)(co-author with Jordana Rubel)